Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas.
This is your daily reminder that Republicans are NOT in favor of less government control over peoples’ lives. They just need the right people to be hurt and controlled.
- Women
- “the gays”
- PoC
- Those dirty stoners
I thought that banning
gunsTHC would just make it so that only criminals hadgunsTHC.The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a joint is a good guy with a joint.
If you’re stoned, you’re not as controllable
That’s really not true. Fascists regeims tend to like drugs because it keeps the population complacent.
They’re just looking for a justification to throw minorities in prison.
“Dangerously, retailers exploited the agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of THC to the public and made them easily accessible,”
…life-threatening…THC
Citation needed buddy. A little THC doesn’t seem to threaten anyone’s life. Someone can die from an alcohol OD but dying from THC requires another condition or activity that is going on, and thus due to inebriation the death occurs. This is still at a rate far lower than alcohol, a legal substance.
Next time I hear a rightie tell me how Texas is a “free state”…
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Fine give up all that tax revenue, other states have been rolling in the funds. And because court and jail fees makes so much more money 🙄
Can we kick out Texas from the US now?
Give it back to Mexico. It’s easy to remove one star from the flag.
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You can do whatever you want with them. I’m sure the people of Austin wouldn’t mind lending a hand
Keep the star, add Puerto Rico, or if they decline, Washington DC
Add DC, Puerto Rico and Guam.
These products are only taxed the 6.25 percent Texan sales tax. They aren’t losing out on much
Almost every legal state adds an additional tax for cannabis products. For example, Michigan charges an additional 10% on top of the regular sales tax that applies
Michigan made almost $300 million last year just on weed, and this year is looking even higher. Texas has a population 3x that of MI. If they legalize it fully and tax like alcohol and tobacco they would be missing out on a lot more. But whatever, we should give Texas to Mexico.
New Mexico will gladly sell you plenty of THC.
Joe rogan in shambles
I mean, Texas already effectively has a ban on THC. They ONLY allow medical cannabis and it can’t be more than 1% THC by weight.
Joe Rogan is already flying above the law and I assume he’ll stay there for a while.
Texas only has a ban on Δ9-THC (>0.3%). The other, more novel, psychoactive cannabinoids like Δ8-THC, THCA, THCB, THCO, etc. are sold over-the-counter throughout the state. This would ban all of them.
Also, Texas doesn’t have medical cannabis unfortunately.
I agree that effectively a policy this restrained is basically no medical program at all, if that’s what you’re saying.
But they do technically have a medical program? https://www.texas.gov/health-services/texas-medical-marijuana/
Yet another reason to avoid Texas at all costs
Sounds like small government to me!
